Marginal Cost Working Group Fall 2010 Meeting
San Diego, California
20 September 2010- 22 September 2010
Hosted By: NERA Economic Consulting
Directed by NERA Senior Consultant Amparo Nieto, NERA's Marginal Cost Working Group (MCWG) gatherings provide an invaluable forum for discussion, allowing member electric and gas utilities to exchange information and keep pace with the latest energy industry and regulatory developments. Membership in MCWG is especially useful to industry professionals in the rates and resource planning departments, as they face the need to address increased energy efficiency goals, as well as increase reliance on renewable energy resources. MCWG convenes twice a year year to share research and ideas on utility marginal cost studies, innovative tariff design, cost-benefit analysis of smart grid investments, latest regulatory methods, and other critical areas such as dealing with energy storage and demand-response mechanisms. Since its inception in 1982, hundreds of utility staff members from dozens of companies have participated in the MCWG.
The Agenda for the Fall 2010 meeting included, among others, the following topics:
- Alternative rates valuation
- Decoupling methods
- Performance-based regulation for electricity distribution
- Smart Grid pilot update
- Electric vehicles and impact on system loads and rates
- Renewables feed-in tariffs and net metering
- Wind integration issues
- Critical peak pricing and TOU rate design results
- Smart Grid: rate options, funding, and demand response issues
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